Strong Eagle wrote:And the murdering torturer who starves his own people ...

Isn't the US is misallocating resources to it military, too?The US spends more than the next 12 nations combined (including its allies), instead of addressing the growing inequalities & investing in eductaion, people & innovation that would help bring people out of their poverty.But, hey, Social Darwinism at work, as the nation continues its decline.

Strong Eagle wrote:And the murdering torturer who starves his own people ...

Isn't the US is misallocating resources to it military, too?The US spends more than the next 12 nations combined (including its allies), instead of addressing the growing inequalities & investing in eductaion, people & innovation that would help bring people out of their poverty.But, hey, Social Darwinism at work, as the nation continues its decline.

Good for business?In some cases for a short-term boost, but not in the long term.Though some technical advances supported by military spending may help the economy (those that can be commercialized), the bulk of military spending is a drag that does not help future prosperity.Weapons expenditures certainly are not helping N. Korea's economy.

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex.The US squanders almost $2K/person on military spending.Saudia Arabia is also a big spender at over $2K/person.

Western European nations are at a more reasonable $0.3K-0.6K/person.Even Russia spends only about $0.5K/person.

If the US were to reduce its military budget 30% it would still spend more in %GDP & would be able to invest more in infrastructure, education, innovation, social stability, which would help future economic prosperity. The US also would be able to reduce it's debt & interest payments, all while still spending more than the next 5-6 nations combined.Unfortunately, logic has no chance against self-interest & emotion.

Damned if we do, damned if we don't. Painful but necesssary? For the Americans. Or perhaps, we should pass the burden to Russia and China. Eh ? Yes, a burden indeed. Shouldered by many young and healthy men. Who had to confront war, only to return home infflicted with PTSD and unable to function in a normal society anymore. The strain on family with military spouses / parents is tremendous. No surprise that divorce rate is high for this demographics.

So, should USA be the world's policeman? What is the world's opinion on this? Including a smallish country like Singapore.........remember terrex confiscation by China . Do we want China to be the the policeman, instead?

Wd40 wrote:So I thought US is a democracy. How can then 1 madman using Twitter dictate whatever he wants from his hips? Xi the real dictator looks more democratic in comparison

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Because the Republican party, which is in power in both houses of Congress has completely abdicated its responsibility and put party over country. The GOP knows they need to pander to the hard right racists and nationalists to win, so they leave Trump alone in order to get re-elected. Spineless buggers, all of them.

On the topic of trade a friend of mine has been doing some mind blowing research at the Stanford Peace Innovation lab. Basically his theses is that inter country trade and business have the most incentive and least reward for building harmony. Trump is blowing that up.

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